Subjects include: steamship services and subsidies; matters concerning the choice of route for the Imperial Route: Great Britain to Canada, Australia, New Zealand (and Hong Kong); the inter-colonial railway of Canada.

Also includes: memoranda by ?Walter Runciman [Financial Secretary to the Treasury], WSC and William Reeves, High Commissioner for New Zealand; maps; copy of the Collooney, Ballina and Belmullet [Ireland] Railways and Piers Bill 1907; details of the Blacksod Bay [Mayo, Ireland] scheme and advisory committee in favour of it; report on proposed cross-channel ferry steamers by Sir William White; minutes and draft interim report of the All-British Route Committee.